Alevantes, nikochero

From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025
Kobi Zarco: Voice
Yarden Erez : ud, guitar, gumbush; violin, keyboard and arrangements
Zeev Yaniv : darbuqa, sonaja, bendir, cajón

This is a humorous well known Romansa about an adulterous who hides her lover from her husband in the pepper, the sneezing lover, claimed to be a cat by the unfaithful wife, is discovered. 

Lyrics:

- Alevantes, nikochero,     alevantes de la kama,
arina no tengo en kaza,   kon la vezina sto peleyada, -
       también por la madrugada.
Nikochero por la puerta,   namorado por la ventana.
- ¿Ande ke te eskonda, mi alma?   ¿ánde ke te eskonda, mi bien?
       también de la madrugada.
¿Ande ke lo eskondiera?    en la kasha de pimienta.
Nikochero ke viniera,     namorado ke sarnudava,
       también por la madrugada.
- Ah, mujer, la mi mujer,    ¿kién sarnuda en esta kasha?
- El gato de la vizina,    ke a los ratones apanya,
       también de la madrugada.                  
- Ah, mujer, la mi mujer,    kero ver kómo los apanya!
- Pedrí la yave de la kasha,   i no se ande toparla
       también por la madrugada.
Tomó la baltá  'n su mano,     arrompió la linda kasha,
Tomó la baltá  'n su mano,     arrompió la linda kasha,
       también de la madrugada.
- Vezinas, las mis vezinas,      vení(d), verésh maraviyas:
un gatiko kon barvika,     mustachikos retorsidos,
      también de la madrugada.

Translation:
- Get up, my husband, get up from the bed,
I have no flour at home, I'm quarreling with the neighbor,
also in the early morning.
The husband comes through the door, the lover through the window.
- Where shall I hide you, my soul? Where shall I hide you, my dear?
also in the early morning.
Where could I hide him? In the pepper box.
The husband was coming, the lover was sneezing,
also in the early morning.
- Ah, woman, my woman, who's sneezing in the pepper box?
- The neighbor’s cat, who catches the mice,
also in the early morning.
- Ah, woman, my woman, I want to see how he catches them!
- I lost the key to the box, and don’t know where to find it,
also in the early morning.
He took the axe in his hand, and broke the pretty box,
He took the axe in his hand, and broke the pretty box,
also in the early morning.
- Neighbors, my neighbors, come, you’ll see wonders:
a little cat with a beard, and twisted little mustaches,
also in the early morning.